Section 5210 of HR 3590 the Obamacare Healthcare Reform Law: Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps

The new Obamacare healthcare law creates a ready reserve corp, an army of emergency responders so to speak. The US Public Health Service describes this army as “an elite team of more than 6,000 full-time, well-trained, highly qualified public health professionals dedicated to delivering the nation's public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science." It also says the force will respond on short notice to "routine public health and emergency response missions," even involuntarily.

* According the US Public Health Service, the new healthcare army will:

* Provide essential public health and health care services to underserved and disadvantaged populations

* Prevent and control injury and the spread of disease

* Ensure that the nation's food supply, drinking water, drugs, medical devices and environment are safe

* Conduct and support cutting-edge research for the prevention, treatment and elimination of disease, health disparities and injury

* Work with other nations and international agencies to address global health challenges

* Provide urgently needed public health and clinical expertise in response to large-scale local, regional and national public health emergencies and disasters

The Democrats' legislation recently added the following text to Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act:

'(b) Assimilating Reserve Corp Officers Into the Regular Corps- Effective on the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.

'(c) Purpose and Use of Ready Research-

'(2) USES- The Ready Reserve Corps shall--

'(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;

'(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;

'(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and

'(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 799B) to improve access to health services.

'(d) Funding- For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for recruitment and training and $12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for the Ready Reserve Corps.'

This unit will fall under the orders of Barack Obama and of course there is no Constitutional basis to this authority. The states use the National Guard (state militia) to handle emergencies, and obviously, this give the president more power over the states. It also may provide power for the president to force all Americans into vaccinations and other medical treatments using the words national emergency.

Some fear doctors who plan on leaving the profession due to the Obamacare mandates will be forced into service. Remember the force will respond on short notice to "routine public health and emergency response missions," even involuntarily.

This healthcare bill also sets up the start of the civilian military force Obama announce during the campaign on July 2, 2008.

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," he said. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."